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| Pentagon Should Declassify Report on Afghan Military Sex Abuse |
| 2017-08-01 |
| h/t Instapundit The U.S. government's Afghanistan watchdog has asked the Pentagon to declassify a report about alleged sexual abuse of children by members of the Afghan security forces. ...The classified report on sexual abuse, which SIGAR recently issued to Congress, deals with how the U.S. military and State Department are implementing laws that prohibit the government from providing aid to another nation's security forces if there is credible information that human rights have been violated. ..."At the request of a bipartisan, bicameral group of 93 members of Congress, SIGAR this quarter issued a report to Congress on DOD and State's implementation of the Leahy Laws in Afghanistan," says SIGAR's quarterly report. "Because DOD has classified much of the information on which the SIGAR report is based, the report is classified. SIGAR has requested that DOD declassify the report so that it can be released to the public." ...A Defense Department official said the report is undergoing a security review and the information may be declassified. The official could not say why the information was classified in the first place. ...And while the SIGAR report says that Afghanistan's domestic revenues are down nearly 25 percent over this time last year, the local narcotics trade is booming, now producing 80 percent of the world's opium. A UN opium-cultivation report cited by SIGAR found that the estimated value of opiates produced in Afghanistan nearly doubled last year, from $1.56 billion in 2015 to $3.02 billion in 2016. Despite the U.S. investment of $8.6 billion to counter Afghanistan's illegal drug economy, the report says figures for 2017 are expected to grow even more. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 Oops. Upper case "R" is typo. Sorry, Pappy. OTOH... look, Mom, no commas! ;-) |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-08-01 22:49 |
| #8 On Rats and immoderate habits. Our cats who catch backstabbing Babbitts Find something peculiar: A huge grey familiar Attending the Democrats' sabbats. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-08-01 22:45 |
| #7 It just dawned on me, that's a major reason why so many democrat politicians visit Afghanistan. It's called sexual tourism. No wonder they wanted to keep it quiet. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-01 14:39 |
| #6 Democrat wet dream |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-01 14:34 |
| #5 ...but diversity! (aka Anti-Western Civ) |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-08-01 13:53 |
| #4 Neh. It's just the generals unwilling to admit that they screwed up. What they should've told to George the Lucky "Democracy? Here? Very funny!" |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-08-01 13:50 |
| #3 Seems like there are a higher-than-statistical number of politicians involved in s*x abuse, especially child s*x abuse - perhaps they're just protecting their own... |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2017-08-01 13:37 |
| #2 Can we have a report on sexual abuse by NGOs as well? That, and reports on the UN peacekeepers, always make for |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-08-01 13:25 |
| #1 Can't have the left's allies being shown in a bad light, can we? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-08-01 08:57 |